1972: Still living in the 70's for x-daysofmusic
Another year of this challenge set up by @backinblackdevil.
This started in 1972. It was a while before I got to see it, though:
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in The Jar
How to update a traditional tune for the late 20th century. Eric Bell left the band a year later, and you have to wonder how much better they'd have been if he hadn't. This wasn't on an album at the time, but the first three Lizzy LPs are well worth searching out for more explorations of the same territory and Kid Jensen's excruciating narration of 'The Hero and the Madman' on Vagabonds of the Western World
Frank Zappa - Eat That Question
From The Grand Wazoo
The shift from organ to orchestra! The noodling! One of those riffs I can hum all day!
This was a golden time for Zappa's jazz-inflected work. Waka-Jawaka was out in the same year. Frank was in a wheelchair after being pushed off stage the year before, during the gig after the one which gave Deep Purple Smoke on The Water (now how bad is your job?). Therefore he was just writing and recording as much as possible.
The shift from organ to orchestra! The noodling! One of those riffs I can hum all day!
This was a golden time for Zappa's jazz-inflected work. Waka-Jawaka was out in the same year. Frank was in a wheelchair after being pushed off stage the year before, during the gig after the one which gave Deep Purple Smoke on The Water (now how bad is your job?). Therefore he was just writing and recording as much as possible.
Deep Purple - Highway Star
From Machine Head. German TV concert, I believe.
We don't get the scream from the record, but we do get lots of hair. Classic album from the definitive Purple line-up, and just before it all went off the boil. 'Smoke...' wasn't the single, but it became the song they always play. Ian Gillan even had Black Sabbath play it on the tour he did with them, but that's best left un-heard. This was the single and is an entire Purple gig in 6 minutes.
We don't get the scream from the record, but we do get lots of hair. Classic album from the definitive Purple line-up, and just before it all went off the boil. 'Smoke...' wasn't the single, but it became the song they always play. Ian Gillan even had Black Sabbath play it on the tour he did with them, but that's best left un-heard. This was the single and is an entire Purple gig in 6 minutes.
Blue Öyster Cult - Cities on Flame
From Blue Öyster Cult. Isn't this an exciting video?
Love the song, the riff, the band. BÖC were never taken seriously despite releasing album after album of great pop-metal that is still worth bouncing around the room to.
Love the song, the riff, the band. BÖC were never taken seriously despite releasing album after album of great pop-metal that is still worth bouncing around the room to.
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
*From Transformer. I think he may be miming.
Quite liked Velvet Underground, but Lou Reed's solo stuff could get really strange. This is classic stuff, of course. Herbie Flowers with his original bass strings (no-one ever told him he should change them occasionally), the odd sax solo, and 'the coloured girls going "doop, de doop..."'.
Quite liked Velvet Underground, but Lou Reed's solo stuff could get really strange. This is classic stuff, of course. Herbie Flowers with his original bass strings (no-one ever told him he should change them occasionally), the odd sax solo, and 'the coloured girls going "doop, de doop..."'.
All the above videos are taken from YouTube, mostly courtesy of people who don't hold the rights.
The rules are to be interpreted as you like really, but are something like this:
Pick years from when you were born to now. It really doesn't have to be all of them
Feature some songs from one of those years in a post with some details about why you like them. You can write something about the year in general too.
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Use the hashtag #x-daysofmusic